Lila's Little Dinosaur

by Wolfram Hänel, Alex de Wolf (Illustrations), J. Alison James (Translation)

When her father takes her to the museum, Lila, who likes dinosaurs more than anything else, finds a little live dinosaur who becomes so fond of her that he follows her home.

22 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1945

About the author

Also writes as Kurt Appaz and as Freda Wolff (with Ulrike Gerold).

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lila loves dinosaurs MORE THAN ANYTHING. So when she sees a newspaper ad for Dinosaurs in Motion she is SO EXCITED!

Her parents -- less excited. But eventually dad agrees to take her to the museum where she tells him ALL THE THINGS about dinosaurs. Before reluctantly heading home, Lila crawls under an exhibit to see how it works. There she meets a BABY RAINBOW DINOSAUR that follows her home. Her parents don't seem to see it, but they do wonder where the potted plants keep disappearing to...

Fun book for beginning readers who like dinosaurs.



I don't know what's wrong with Lila's parents, btw; who doesn't like dinosaurs?! I went to an exhibit like the one in the book just recently and I'm happy to say there were many other visitors without kids. See?



(The dino you can see a bit of in the upper left corner was one of the moving ones -- they were hard to photograph!)